Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 20:52:42 / May 11, 2020 @ 8:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.42 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv71508642. Ids that are associated to the event: hv71508642. Exact location of event, longitude -155.1613312 West, latitude 18.8536663 North, depth = 10.42 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:52:42 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park. Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km SE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.1613312° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8536663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km SE of Pahala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-11 20:52:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-11 20:58:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	128	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	hv	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4136	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	271	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv71508642	Id of event.
Event Code	71508642	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv71508642,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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